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The Darkening Hour

The Darkening Hour
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thriller from the author of Richard & Judy Bookclub pick Tideline A middle class woman at her wits’ end. A struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over,...

The Darkest Evening

The Darkest Evening
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope’s only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead...

The Daughter

The Daughter
  • Author(s): Liz Webb
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years – ‘Dad…did you murder Mum?’ Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden...

The Death of Mr Love

The Death of Mr Love
  • Author(s): Indra Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Lewes, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s and 1990s

The central tenet is based on a murder case in 1950s Bombay, with tremendous descriptions of the Bombay underworld, its backstreets and community politics, together with scenes of rural India. The story of Bhalu as he remembers his idyllic...

The Devil’s Company

The Devil’s Company
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1722

The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire and master of disguise Benjamin Weaver finds himself pitted against a mysterious mastermind who holds the lives of Weaver’s friends in the balance. To protect the people he loves, Weaver must stage...

The Devil’s Dice

The Devil’s Dice
  • Author(s): Roz Watkins
  • Location(s): The Peak District
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A SHOCKING DEATH – A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches. A SINISTER MESSAGE – Amidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There’s...

The Devil’s Mask

The Devil’s Mask
  • Author(s): Christopher Wakling
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

The Georgian terraces are rising. In the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, the port of Bristol is awash with the commercial gains of the Empire. But in the midst of all the grand building projects something...

The Dig

The Dig
  • Author(s): John Preston
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange...

The Discourtesy of Death

The Discourtesy of Death
  • Author(s): William Brodrick
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Crime

An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood’s Prior accuses Peter Henderson, an academic celebrity renowned for daring ideas, of a grotesque murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, believed by everyone to have died peacefully two years previously...

The Doll Princess

The Doll Princess
  • Author(s): Tom Benn
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 1990s

Imoved to Manchester in 1998, two years after The Doll Princess is set. While I recognise the areas – and accents – in Tom Benn’s debut novel, the immediate aftermath of the 1996 IRA bomb is something I never...

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